Sentences with phrase «of animal brains»

The pair noticed that certain parts of the animal brain were inherently sensitive to repetition — regardless of whether it translated into a valued juice reward.

If lamprey software can help people with spinal injuries, it will be in the shape of animal brain circuitry realised on a chip wired into a human being — a kind of cyborg sandwich.

Dr. Johnson's research uses advanced magnetic resonance images of the animal brain in order to study the structure and connectivity of the white matter in the equine brain as well as to identify MRI biomarkers for canine degenerative myelopathy and to improve our ability to understand and diagnose canine epilepsy.

Not exact matches

That stems in part from the presence in our brains of a well - developed frontal lobe, an evolutionary advantage we hold over the rest of the animal kingdom.

And, over time, those benefits could really add up: One animal study found that regular exercise actually reorganizes parts of the brain, making it less reactive to stress.

In fact, in animals, play helps the frontal lobe of the brain mature.

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

Remember our brains are the products of millions of years of animal evolution prior to our more sentient abilities of the past 250,000 years.

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

well known private home with idol dedicated to foul poison orgies and rampant destruction of brain and lung due to ingestion of OPIUM FLOWER AND ANIMAL FECES if you want better argument you would be better of trying to quote adolf hitler!!!

There are many forms of Jellyfish, and various other animals, that have no brain... by your thinking you can eat them.

Anyone can see the evolution of the brain from simpler animals to us... God didn't make it!

That's not quite right and in fact you miss one of the biggest differences in the human brain compared to other animals.

With the evolution of life, at a certain stage, came the development of animals with a nervous system, and eventually human beings with a large brain.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

The dizzying advances in molecular biology blur the former distinctions between man, animal, plant and mineral; and the recent «reductions» of mind to brain are fruits of the methodological imperative to explain the animate and mental in terms of the inanimate and the unconscious.

The authors discuss the evolution of the human brain, the importance of language, and compare human intelligence to that found in other animals.

He has achieved fame by experiments in which, after removing the amygdalae from the brains of cats, he observed that the cats veered «helplessly from one inappropriate affect to another, boredom where there should be fear... sexual arousal where there was nothing that would stimulate an intact animal.»

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

We also know that other animals with brains that are structured similarly display similar forms of consciousness and self - awareness.

It needs to be stated first that human beings are highly complex psycho - physical organisms with literally thousands of energy events interacting with each other and with and under the dominance of an «organizing center of experience» (the brain), also present in animals with central nervous systems.

Jesus found mankind a rabble of clever animals with brains & hands; when he left us we were men.

There we learn that when Dr. Starling removed the amygdala from the brains of laboratory cats, he observed them «to veer helplessly from one inappropriate affect to another, boredom where there should be fear, cringing where there should be preening, sexual arousal where there was nothing that would stimulate an intact animal.»

I mean to assert that my conscious experience, the experience constitutive of me as a conscious ego, is the experience of the actual entities constitutive of the personally ordered regnant society which dominates my brain and my whole animal organism.

Humans clearly are set apart the rest of the animal kingdom if for nothing else due to the complexity of the human brain.

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

«He knew that a sense of God might have developed Without divine love having really enveloped A universe thoughtless in its part or its whole Until animal brains made for mind, heart, and soul.»

In a work recently completed, but not yet published, I have explained how the adaptability of animal bodily systems, especially the brain, which Meredith and Stein have remarkably demonstrated in respect of the senses in their The Merging of the Senses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neurology.

In vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavior.

This emergence of human (and other animal) minds out of brains is not, furthermore, a unique type of emergence.

Wilson has dedicated his life to persuading us to think of ourselves as animals who, by dint of luck and natural selection, have evolved to possess highly complex brains.

According to the theory, the form of relatedness that characterizes unified, purposive functioning in human beings and lower animals should be manifested in their brain waves — perhaps in some kind of harmony that appears in the brain wave pattern.

An animal's brain waves can be directly manipulated by placing it in an electromagnetic field and modulating the electromagnetic waves within the range of the brain's natural rhythms.

With the evolutionary emergence of complex, ordered societies of occasions serving the rich and imaginative experience of strands of «presiding occasions» which exhibit «personal order «4 and perhaps consciousness — that is, animals and human beings, with their quicksilver brains and supple bodies — opportunities expand exponentially and the risks of freedom expand correlatively.

It's part of our brain, our animal instincts.

These scientist, and doctors, can not remake skin, bone, eyes, brains, oval eggs, sperm, none of the sort, so they have no real answer to create a life other than how procreation works, where again what, and how is the very first man, or woman, animal, other creatures, either in the sea, or creeping on this earth was originally created from, as where did they first come from?

The animal does have a series of unifying, dominant occasions which jointly constitute the psyche, but even these can exist only in the interstitial spaces in the brain.

Some believe that the 90 % of our brain which we do not use is not simply empty matter in our skulls, but may have originally been the parts of our brain that communicated with the spiritual realm of the angels so that through them we could communicate with each other, with God, with the animals, with the plants, and even with the forces of nature (For more on this theology of angels, see «The Powers Trilogy» by Walter Wink.)

It is our ability to think and reason that makes us human and distinguishes us from all other animals, a piece of tissue, and a baby from an embryo with no measurable brain waves.

Of course nobody with a brain goes to Wal - Mart anyway, and isn't it funny that these so - called «religious» companies seem to include the oh - co-Christian practices of animal torture and sweat - shop promotion in their whoring after the almighty dollaOf course nobody with a brain goes to Wal - Mart anyway, and isn't it funny that these so - called «religious» companies seem to include the oh - co-Christian practices of animal torture and sweat - shop promotion in their whoring after the almighty dollaof animal torture and sweat - shop promotion in their whoring after the almighty dollar.

We've pinpointed those regions of the brain that «light up» in moments of prayer and meditation; we've changed the sociability patterns of many animals.

This method of slaughter reduces the blood pressure in the brain to zero immediately so that the animal loses consciousness in a few seconds and dies in less than a minute.

The amazing advances in molecular biology blur the traditional hierarchical distinctions between man, animal, plant and mineral; and the neurophysiological «explanation» of human consciousness in terms of the components and machinations of the brain even more dramatically illustrates how pure «matter» has assumed dominance in any attempt to make sense of our universe and its manifestations.

But as the brain becomes more complex we may surmise that the animal has experiences that go beyond the mere service of the body.

At the summit of material animal evolution is a proto - human, but the next stage of complexity in brain function would be out of kilter with the natural environment since it is now too powerful to be subject to the ULCD from the material environment alone.

REM sleep is speculated to be a «processing» of sorts that the brains of many animals perform, but I didn't know it had anything to do with folding or repairing improperly folded proteins... what's that based on?

Because however versatile the animal brain, however much it mocks the «intelligence» of true man, it is actually always within the order of the programmed and controlled; it is instinctual and repetitive.

PRO: The «reptile brain,» which is a nice catchy term for the base urges we feel courtesy of the amygdala portion of our brains, loves the unfussy, excessive, glorious, juicy, animal - instinct aspects of obtaining fresh kill and crunching away at it with the jawbone.

Many of our Asian and European neighbours utilise all parts of the animal for a variety of delicacies, including sheep eyeball skewers, barbequed beef diaphragms and crumbed lamb brains.

Inbreeding by scab breeders and kennel owners has resulted in a deterioration of the line of many popular breeds such as poodles, Bedlingtons and boxers, sometimes creating a specific brain disorder, which means that the animal has to be destroyed.